Amal Helles

Jan 20, 2025 | thetimes.com | Amal Helles |Richard Spencer

Jan 17, 2025 | thetimes.com | Tom Ball |Gabrielle Weiniger |Amal Helles

Jan 14, 2025 | thetimes.com | Gabrielle Weiniger |Amal Helles

Oct 19, 2024 | thetimes.com | Amal Helles

After a year of war, let me tell you a love story. It begins in Gaza: my home, where I was born and where my children were born, a place I always dreamt of leaving until I had to. It begins by the Mediterranean Sea, where I met Samed, when we were both students at different universities in Gaza. I studied English, spending my days reading Jane Austen and Shakespeare; he studied journalism. One day in 2012, when I was in my first year, he came to visit a friend who was at the same university as me.

Oct 17, 2024 | thetimes.com | George Grylls |Amal Helles

For more than a year, Israeli soldiers scoured the scorched earth of Gaza in search of the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, who was thought to be hiding in a vast tunnel network. Then, by chance, they found him. Late on Wednesday in the southern city of Rafah, trainee Israeli troops from the 828th Battalion, a mixture of novice soldiers and reservists, spotted three suspicious figures moving from “home to home on the run”, the military said.